Gregg Pollack: Effective Technical Screencasting


The Ruby community has many people creating quality screencasts, but there’s plenty of room for more. Creating a screencast for your library/gem or coding technique is probably the most effective way to teach other developers how to use it properly. Come learn how to create effective screencasts to further educate our community, it’s easier than you might think.

Attendees will get an opportunity to try out different screencasting software, create their own tech screencasts, and get immediate feedback about how they can improve.

Register to hear Gregg talk and win him some points!

About Gregg

Gregg Pollack

Website: http://envylabs.com

Gregg is a Hollywood director trapped in the body of a Software Developer. Although he loves programming he is also passionate about finding new and creative ways to educate using podcasts and screencasts. When he’s not thinking up new ideas to take over the world he can be found contributing to the Rails Activist Team, the Orlando Ruby Users Group, BarCamp Orlando, and Ignite Orlando.

He is a CTO and Lead Developer with experience in developing, deploying, and managing Ruby on Rails web applications. With 8 years in web development , Gregg has experience with Java, Perl, PHP, and Cold Fusion, but he prefers to stay on the cutting edge of Ruby on Rails programming. He is always interested in new projects and development opportunities.

Gregg’s Specialties:

  • Project management
  • Web application development
  • Ruby
  • Ruby on Rails
  • CSS, HTML
  • MySQL
  • Javascript